In premature births, one of the dangers that must be overcome is the difficulty in inflating the baby's lungs, because the surfactant has not yet reached an adequate level. In order to breathe, the infant must expand its lungs, breaking down the
bonds between fluid molecules that are trying to keep the lungs from expanding.

Which of the following is not considered an appendage of the skin? nails glands follicles none of the above

Cassandra made a venn diagram to compare and contrast the two stages of cellular respiration. which belongs in the area marked x? energy is released. oxygen is used up. glucose is broken down. carbon dioxide is used up.

The kidney filters potentially toxic substances in the blood, and thus “clears” the blood of those substances. this clearance function is dependent upon and proportional to the diffusion gradient of the substance across filtering capillaries, i.e. if the concentration of the substance is doubled, twice as much will be cleared from each ml of blood that is filtered. suppose that the body produces a constant amount of a substance x per unit of time. the kidneys eliminate substance x at a rate directly proportional to the concentration of the substance and the volume of blood cleared each minute (c): elimination = c × [x], where [x] is the steady-state concentration of substance x. imagine an individual with an initial concentration of x equal to [x]0 who develops kidney disease. her baseline clearance c0 drops to one half of the original (½c0). what is the new steady state concentration of x? (for simplicity, assume that substance x is 100% filtered by the kidney).